Too Late to Turn Back Now (song)

"Too Late to Turn Back Now"
"Too Late to Turn Back Now"
	Side A of the US single
Single by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
from the album Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
B-side	"Lift Your Love Higher"
Released	May 1972
Recorded	1970
Genre	Soul
Length	3:18
Label	United Artists; UA 50910
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Cornelius
Producer(s)	Bob Archibald
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose singles chronology

"Too Late to Turn Back Now" is the 1972 follow-up single of Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose to their debut hit "Treat Her Like a Lady". The single had previously been released in 1970 on the Platinum label.

Written by Eddie Cornelius, the song had great success upon its re-release, peaking at number 5 on the U.S. R&B chart and number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers).^[3] "Too Late to Turn Back Now" went to No. 1 on Cash Box's chart of the Top 100 Singles for the week of July 29, 1972.^[4]

"Too Late to Turn Back Now" is ranked as the 34th biggest U.S. hit of 1972. The record was awarded a gold disc on 2 August 1972 for one million sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).^[5]^[6]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1972)	Peak position
Australia	15
Canada RPM Top Singles^[7]	1
New Zealand (Listener) ^[8]	20
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[9]	2
U.S. R&B Singles^[10]	5
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary^[11]	6
U.S. Cashbox Top 100^[4]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1972)	Rank
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[12]	34
Canada^[13]	61

In Popular Culture

The song was featured in the 1997 film The Ice Storm, the 2018 film BlacKkKlansman and episode 5 of the Amazon Prime Video series Daisy Jones & The Six.^{[citation needed]}

According to the book, Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years by Rick Simmons, and the Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia, "Too Late to Turn Back Now" is a Beach music classic.^[14]^[15]

References

^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "Walking in Rhythm: Seventies Soul". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 60. ISBN 031214704X.
^ "Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose – Too Late To Turn Back Now / Lift Your Love Higher". Discogs. 1972. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
^ ^a ^b CASH BOX Top 100 Singles - Week ending JULY 29, 1972
^ Whitburn, Joel (1997). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles. Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research Inc. p. 133. ISBN 0-89820-122-5.
^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 291 and 310. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
^ "Music lyrics, charts, Games, & more". Top40db.net. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
^ "Too Late to Turn Back Now (song by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose)". Music VF.com. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 59.
^ "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Top 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
^ "Canadian TOP 100 singles of 1972". Archived from the original on September 16, 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
^ Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years, By Rick Simmons · 2011 - ISBN:9781614231806, 161423180X - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, "Too Late to Turn Back Now"
^ Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia, By Rick Simmons · 2018 - ISBN:9781476667676, 1476667675 - Page 77 Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

External links

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Too Late to Turn Back Now on YouTube

[Breithaupt_1996-1] Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "Walking in Rhythm: Seventies Soul". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 60. ISBN 031214704X.

[2] "Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose – Too Late To Turn Back Now / Lift Your Love Higher". Discogs. 1972. Retrieved 2018-12-20.

[3] "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.

[cash-4] CASH BOX Top 100 Singles - Week ending JULY 29, 1972

[Whitburn-5] Whitburn, Joel (1997). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles. Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research Inc. p. 133. ISBN 0-89820-122-5.

[The_Book_of_Golden_Discs-6] Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 291 and 310. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.

[7] "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2016-10-07.

[8] "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-10-07.

[9] "Music lyrics, charts, Games, & more". Top40db.net. Retrieved 2016-10-07.

[MusicVF-10] "Too Late to Turn Back Now (song by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose)". Music VF.com. Retrieved 23 November 2024.

[11] Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 59.

[12] "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Top 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.

[13] "Canadian TOP 100 singles of 1972". Archived from the original on September 16, 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2013.

[14] Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years, By Rick Simmons · 2011 - ISBN:9781614231806, 161423180X - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, "Too Late to Turn Back Now"

[15] Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia, By Rick Simmons · 2018 - ISBN:9781476667676, 1476667675 - Page 77 Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

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